Panchkula: Maid loses salary, mobile to snatcher

PANCHKULA: A man on a motorcycle snatched a mobile phone having Rs 5,000 from a domestic help going home after receiving her month’s salary in Railly village, Sector 12 A, on Monday evening. Gauri said she had kept the money received from her employer in the back cover of her mobile phone she was using to talk to a friend when the accused came from behind and struck. Police registered a case under section 379-A (punishment for snatching) of the IPC.

Meanwhile, police on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly a snatching a gold chain from a woman in Sector 20. The accused is Aditya Sharma, a resident of Shivalik Vihar, Zirakpur. A court remanded him in three-day police custody. TNN